Examiner Khang Do

Grant ratio: 73.6% (60th percentile in Art Unit 2492 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.03. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 73.6%
Average office actions / grant 2.03
Compared with Art unit Very easy
Compared with Work group Very easy
Compared with Technology center Very easy
Compared with USPTO About average

Examiner record

Examiner ID
88912
Primary art unit
2492
Work group
2490
Technology center
2400
Applications
349
Granted applications
257
Examiner phone
(571) 270-7837
Supervisor
Rupal Dharia
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-3880

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 28 58.7% 2.15
Group 198 61.4% 2.06
Tech Center 1,754 58.4% 2.14
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.03 710 office actions across 349 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 349 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 158 45.3%
2 OAs 95 27.2%
3 OAs 48 13.8%
4 OAs 31 8.9%
5+ OAs 17 4.9%

Each application is counted once. “5+” includes all higher counts.

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2012: 0.0% 2012 2013: 64.3% 2013 2014: 80.0% 2014 2015: 66.7% 2015 2016: 81.8% 2016 2017: 91.7% 2017 2018: 76.5% 2018 2019: 92.6% 2019 2020: 86.7% 2020 2021: 77.8% 2021 2022: 100.0% 2022 2023: 68.8% 2023 2024: 81.0% 2024 2025: 25.0% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2012200.0%
2013281864.3%
2014302480.0%
2015271866.7%
2016332781.8%
2017363391.7%
2018342676.5%
2019272592.6%
2020302686.7%
20219777.8%
20222020100.0%
2023161168.8%
2024211781.0%
202520525.0%
20261600.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 349 1.1% 2.6% 83.7% 2.9%
Action 2 191 1.6% 1.0% 90.6% 3.1%
Action 3 96 1.0% 0.0% 94.8% 1.0%
Action 4 48 0.0% 0.0% 97.9% 0.0%
Action 5 17 0.0% 0.0% 94.1% 5.9%
Action 6 8 0.0% 0.0% 75.0% 12.5%
Action 7 1 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 100.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 4.1% 4 of 97 office actions
All years 1.1% 8 of 710 office actions
Change +3.0 pts Percentage points

Last 3 years: 2023-08-28–2026-08-28. All years includes every dated office action in the data.

By year

0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2014: Alice
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
1.5%
2019: PEG
3.7%
2.2%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2024: AI examples
3.2%
2025: August memo
10.3%
0.0%

Each bar is the percentage of office actions with a §101 rejection.

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 2. Merits outcomes: 1 affirmed, 0 affirmed in part, and 1 reversed.

Full reversal rate
50.0% 1/2 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
50.0% 1/2 decisions
Median appeal duration
18.1 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Apr. 18, 2018 14/523,884 Reversed §103
Mar. 29, 2016 12/983,672 Affirmed §102 · §103 · §112

The examiner match uses the last recorded office action before the decision. Reversal rates exclude rehearings, remands, dismissals, and other decisions that did not reach the merits. Data through Aug. 27, 2026.

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